Staff / TruthdigJun 7, 2014
Thanks to deep-sea fish, the ocean absorbs about half of the carbon humans produce; Las Vegas' main water supply is a lake that just hit record-low levels; meanwhile, Bowe Bergdahl would not be alone in the "honorable history of war deserters." These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Richard Reeves / TruthdigJun 7, 2014
If today's Republican Party had been around during the Civil War, it would have tried to stop its own president, a fellow named Lincoln, from appointing Gen. Ulysses S. Grant commander of the Union Army because he drank on duty. Dig deeper
Joe Conason / TruthdigJun 7, 2014
What the Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl saga demonstrates beyond question -- to anyone who still nurtured any doubt -- is that the Republican right will junk just about any basic American value to satisfy its hatred of President Barack Obama. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 6, 2014
As the controversy over the prisoner swap grows, new information has emerged about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s time in Afghanistan. A journalist and veteran of the Afghan war who has been following the Bergdahl story for years discusses the developments with "Democracy Now!" on Friday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Amy Goodman / TruthdigJun 6, 2014
Far removed from the din of professional Beltway hecklers, Bob Bergdahl, father of former Taliban prisoner Bowe Bergdahl, has been struggling for his son's release. The ordeal of the son, and the disciplined, contemplative activism of the father, projects the U.S. war in Afghanistan through a different lens. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigJun 5, 2014
Here are good mustaches and beards and bad mustaches and beards as imagined in American popular culture and war propaganda, as a way of contextualizing today’s hero-worship of the backwoods conservatives of "Duck Dynasty" and villainization of the backwoods conservatives of the Taliban. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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